STRONG MEN OF OLD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 November 1924, Page 8

STRONG MEN OF OLD.

'Sa^S“"7: e W“’ h ?ve C KeinarlabW+i ' 1( - C01 by historians. Sj^^waa dS? V those .. reoorflef l in bygone of ihe ; ,most", famous strong men of antiquity ™ Polydamas, sahnn, who lived about 400 B.C. • ib>onderful stories, are +nbi n f icolossal size "and strength. • 113 On one occasion said to have hold.a wild bull, so firmly by one of As hnul feet that the. animal, jy its wreichJd off ’ ,0“° ’ Ul? ?" otl " r feot : .for„wM c li he 4vas renowned was the stopping of a ehaiipt when driving at full speed bv seizing the wheel. 1 D} Jlichard Co.eur de Lion, was an exeeptionally strong, man, and it is related OS. him .that, while a prisoner in. Germany in thp hands of the Emperor, he gavp.. a,-terribly practical proof of the force of the. ; blow he was able to deal with. Ins,-:clenched fist. The son of bis principal warder had myited the royal 'captive to an exchange of blows, and, winning the right to deliver the first punch by. cast, .of the dice, struck the king a heavy blow on the; side Of the head, staggering him. Richard, in his turn, now struck and landed’’ on the opponent’s ear with such force as to fell him on the spot. .Sir Walter Scott, in big inimitable .romance, “Ivanhoe,” makes use of the story in his relation of- the exchange of buffets between the King and Priar Tuck.